Mel Fiske

Mel Fiske was a labor reporter for Daily Worker from 1940 until 1956. He covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House and the Pentagon, focusing on the opposition to labor organizing, political dissent and the rise of McCarthyism. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 and served in the South Pacific during World War II. An activist until the end, he always carrying a picket sign reading: "A Vet Against the War in Iraq."